Birth of the Kingdom (Crusades Trilogy, Book 3) by Jan Guillou

one of many fiercest and so much feared warriors of the Knights Templar, Arn de Gotha can eventually go back domestic to his cherished Sweden, now that Jerusalem has been misplaced to Saladin. yet in the course of his 20 years of exile, Arn's place of birth has been torn aside via warring clans—and the courageous nobleman soldier is set to reunite it and identify lasting peace.

anticipating him is his liked Cecilia, rising from a convent to hitch him after their unfathomably lengthy separation, opposed to the strict calls for of her extended family. Their reunion may incite a warfare until they could persuade the extended family that love ranks larger than politics, and that it could maintain a brand new quest: to create a brand new humans, a brand new society, with Arn at its helm.

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Nineteenth-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot opposed to Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle clergymen with their very own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by means of day and have a good time Black plenty at evening. each kingdom has its personal mystery provider, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. Conspiracies rule heritage. From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Europe is in tumult and everybody wishes a scapegoat. yet what if, in the back of all of those conspiracies, either actual and imagined, lay one lone man?

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